1047557 - Warm up Gecko while search activity is running

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Search Activity, defect)

Description

[:Margaret Leibovic]

I'm not sure how to go about doing this, but it would be pretty sweet if gecko was ready to go by the time a user launched a URL from the search activity.

The search activity is built as part of the Fennec app, so we should have access to anything we need to call.

blassey or rnewman, got any ideas about how we could do this?

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

It might be enough for your purposes to simply do this:

  ThreadUtils.setUiThread(Thread.currentThread(), new Handler());
  if (GeckoThread.checkAndSetLaunchState(GeckoThread.LaunchState.Launching, GeckoThread.LaunchState.Launched)) {
      GeckoThread.createAndStart();
  }

but be prepared for various things to break, either immediately (calls back from Gecko to get surfaces etc.) or when Fennec launches (profile not created? various listeners not inited?).

Fixing those will essentially involve reimplementing GeckoView#init, but there are landmines there: e.g., GeckoAppShell#setContextGetter will hold a reference to your activity if you let it.

snorp will have more to say about all this, but no harm in getting started.

Comment 2

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

I think you will want to just wait for bug 834033 to land, or at least the headless part of it. Maybe snorp can split that out as a separate landable bug

Comment 3

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

(In reply to Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?) from comment #2)
> I think you will want to just wait for bug 834033 to land, or at least the
> headless part of it. Maybe snorp can split that out as a separate landable
> bug

Yeah, that would be the way forward here. I can try to land that stuff.

Comment 4

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

This is an ex-Search Activity now (bug 1221344).